Chapter 16. Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden
1. Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul
for Saudi Oil (New York: Crown Publishers, 2003), p 26.
2. Thomas W. Lippman, Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership
with Saudi Arabia (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2004), p 162.
3. Thomas W. Lippman, Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership
with Saudi Arabia (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2004), p 2.
4. Henry Wasswa, “Idi Amin, Murderous Ugandan Dictator, Dies,”
Associated Press, August 17, 2003.
5. “The Saudi Connection,” U.S. News & World Report, December 15,
2003, p 21.
6. “The Saudi Connection,” U.S. News & World Report, December 15,
2003, pp 19, 20, 26.
7. Craig Unger, “Saving the Saudis,” Vanity Fair, October 2003. For more
on the Bush family’s involvement, Bechtel, etc., see: “Zapata Petroleum
Corp.,” Fortune, April 1958, p 248; Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy:
Dresser Industries, Inc. 1880-1978 (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1979); Nathan Vardi, “Desert Storm: Bechtel Group Is Leading the
Charge,” and “Contacts for Contracts,” both in Forbes, June 23, 2003,
pp 63–66; Graydon Carter, “Editor’s Letter: Fly the Friendly Skies…”
Vanity Fair, October 2003; Richard A. Oppel with Diana B. Henriques,
“A Nation at War: The Contractor. Company has ties in Washington,
and to Iraq,” New York Times, April 18, 2003.
Chapter 17. Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene
1. See for example: John M. Perkins, “Colonialism in Panama Has No
Place in 1975,” Boston Evening Globe, Op-Ed page, September 19,
1975; John M. Perkins, “U.S.–Brazil Pact Upsets Ecuador,” The Boston
Globe, Op-Ed page, May 10, 1976.
2. For examples of papers by John Perkins published in technical journals,
see: John M. Perkins et al., “A Markov Process Applied to Forecasting,
Part I—Economic Development” and “A Markov Process Applied to
Forecasting, Part II—The Demand for Electricity,” The Institute of